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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
Vendor	thinkingmachines	x-ai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	-
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$2.00/M
Context Window	524,288	256,000
Max Output	262,144	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	-
ai_index_agentic	52.6	-
ai_index_coding	87.4	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
SQL Generation	164	130
Code Review	159	126
Code Completion	133	116
Code Refactoring	158	127
Bug Fixing	170	130
Unit Test Generation	148	121
Code Documentation	141	125
Regex Writing	133	119
CI/CD Pipelines	139	117
Frontend Component Design	141	122
Data Analysis	160	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	127
ETL Scripting	149	122
JSON Extraction	146	123
Bulk Data Labeling	134	121
OCR / Document Parsing	144	128
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	128
Long-Document Summarization	155	129
Short-Form Summarization	130	115
Blog Post Writing	136	118

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →